SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials still have too many unanswered questions about President Barack Obama's health care law to decide whether the state will implement it, Gov. Gary Herbert said Monday in a letter to a federal official.
The federal government extended the deadline until Dec. 14 for states to determine what role, if any, they will play in implementing the law beginning in 2014.
In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Herbert said he would maintain Utah's own health exchange law in the near term. But he said whether the state continues that course depends on "far too many unanswered questions" about the federal alternative.
Herbert included a list of "Top Ten" unanswered questions about the federal exchanges, including how much it will cost the state to participate, whether state policy makers will have a role in influencing its operation, and how it would present options to consumers.
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